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The stability of the ice margin in Baffin Bay led to active decentering of sediments in the deep basin and slopes 25,000−15,000 years ago, but as the ice sheet retreated 13,000-11,000 years ago, deposition moved largely toward the shelf, according to radiocarbon records from 79 sediment cores.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations remained below 840 parts per million and polar regions were glaciated throughout much of the Early Cretaceous except during episodic volcanism, according to an analysis of stable isotope composition of plants and biogenic carbonate data.
The summary of Common Era temperature reconstructions in the 2021 Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change insufficiently characterizes reconstruction uncertainties associated with estimating global mean temperatures.
Intense rainfall events resulting from strong atmospheric river activity two and three millennia ago exceeded those of the 20th century around Leonard Lake, California, according to a 3,200-year reconstruction of integrated vapor transport derived from sediment geochemical data.
Reductions in groundwater level due to El Niño-induced drought events changed an undrained tropical peat swamp forest from a carbon dioxide sink to a source with cumulative impacts of drainage and smoke haze further enhancing long term emissions, suggest long-term field experiments in Indonesia.
Uncertainties associated with the choice of dry indicators impact future projections of compound hot-dry extremes and are greater than scenario uncertainty in some regions, according to an analysis of different indices from multi-model ensemble simulations.
Iceflow acceleration in Greenland has propagated deep inland, even outside fast-flowing channels, in the region upstream of Jakobshavn Isbrae, according to in-situ measurements at eleven locations with measurements going back to 1959.
Plasticity and evolutionary changes in phytoplankton phenotypes in the ocean can be better represented by integrating statistical and multi-trait-based numerical models which will help improve predictions of future ecosystem states and ocean carbon cycling.
Oceanic deoxygenation began about one million years earlier than the marine End-Permian mass extinction, as indicated by variations in magnetic mineral assemblages and geochemical anomalies.
A total of 114,000 ± 9,400 km3 of precipitation falls on land each year with high dataset consensus over tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions, and low agreement over arid and mountain regions, according to an analysis of 17 precipitation datasets over the period 2000-2019.
Attribution of the record-shattering global annual heat in 2023 to human and/or natural factors is fundamentally required for reliable predictions of upcoming global warming and its impacts. An observation-model comparison of global hot areas supports a key role for human-induced climate change, with a small contribution from El Niño.
Climate change effects magnified an intense heat dome over western North America leading to record breaking fire-conducive weather, widespread burning and extreme fire activity in Canada and the United States in July 2021, suggest an analysis of upper air and surface weather.
Nature-based solutions can reduce the immediate risks and impacts of climate change in coastal areas and increase adaptive capacity in the agricultural sector in low- and middle-income countries, according to a systematic review of 363 empirical studies.
In northern China and the Korean Peninsula, air pollution has worsened over the past ten years, but the two countries have not cooperated efficiently to resolve the problem. China and Korea must separate environmental negotiations and diplomatic actions to address the transboundary nature of air pollution.
The effectiveness of carbon dioxide emission reduction targets increases with the level of the targets’ ambition and countries’ education level and income equality, according to an analysis using an econometric model and emission intensity and socio-economic data for 163 countries over the past decade.
A reduction in sea ice formation associated with weaker deep ocean convection during the Last Interglacial could have triggered an increase in Southern Ocean subsurface temperatures of 2–3 °C and thus potential basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves, according to climate model simulations.
The number of small bubbles at the ice-water interface in a perennially ice-covered lake varies in response to changes in ice thickness leading to seasonal variations in the backscatter detected by synthetic aperture radar, suggests 4-year observational time series from Lake Untersee, Antarctica.
The fire ban implemented during burning seasons in the Brazilian Amazon helped reduce the number of fires in 2019 but proved largely ineffective in 2020 and 2021, according to an analysis of observed fires activity and model simulations of expected fires in the absence of a ban over 2019–2021.
An extensive collapse of the south Scandinavian Caledonides is evident from large-scale folding and shear zones observed in the offshore basement of the North Sea Rift, using modern 3D broadband seismic data.